a guy who spent 15 years building up a top-notch physics expertise that is now completely irrelevant for my life.
By the way, I think that the physics perspective (“thinking like a physicist”) is under-represented and under-appreciated in the AGI safety community.
Edit: to extend this thought a little further: I think the philosophical perspective is over-represented and adequately appreciated. The mathematical perspective is either under-represented and adequately appreciated, or adequately represented and over-appreciated (I’m not sure). The engineering/empirical/interpretability perspective is adequately or under-represented (we probably should experiment more with the SoTA models that are already available and try to interpret them better, even though this might give the sense to their creators that they did something useful for alignment in publishing these models and their act was not harmful on balance) and adequately appreciated.
By the way, I think that the physics perspective (“thinking like a physicist”) is under-represented and under-appreciated in the AGI safety community.
Edit: to extend this thought a little further: I think the philosophical perspective is over-represented and adequately appreciated. The mathematical perspective is either under-represented and adequately appreciated, or adequately represented and over-appreciated (I’m not sure). The engineering/empirical/interpretability perspective is adequately or under-represented (we probably should experiment more with the SoTA models that are already available and try to interpret them better, even though this might give the sense to their creators that they did something useful for alignment in publishing these models and their act was not harmful on balance) and adequately appreciated.